Toby M. Chapman

Department of Chemistry
Chevron Science Center
219 Parkman Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
phone: 412- 624-8250
e-mail:
tchapman@imap.pitt.edu

(1960) B.S., University of Illinois

(1965) Ph. D., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn

(1965-1967) NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School

Toby M. Chapman
Professor
Department of Chemistry
The University of Pittsburgh


Research Interests
Toby has an interest in dendritic polymers and particularly amphiphilic hybrid polymers containing linear poly (ethylene glycol) appended with dendritic polylysine. These polymers show promise in such diverse areas as controlled drug delivery, artificial blood, gene therapy, and as biodegradable scaffolds for tissue engineering.

Sample Publications
  J. M. Orban, T. M. Chapman, W. R. Wagner, R. Jankowski,
Easily Grafted Polyurethanes with Reactive Main Chain Functional Groups. Synthesis, Characterization, and Anti-thrombogenicity of Poly(Ethylene Glycol) grafted Poly(Urethanes),  J.Chem. Ed. 37A, 3441-3448 (1999). Polym. Sci. Polym.
  J. V. Gandhi, J. V. Maher, K. A. Shaffer, and T. M. Chapman, Capillary Wave Studies of Multi-block Polypeptide Copolymers at the Air/Water Interface, Langmuir 13, 5933 (1997).
   J. Orban and T. M. Chapman, Synthesis and Characterization of Poly(ether) grafted Poly(urethanes) for Anti-Biofouling Applications, , Polym. Preprints, Div. Polym. Chem. Am. Chem. Soc, 37, no. 2, 296 (1996).